Last year we reported on a major victory for nudist hiking in Switzerland. A hiker in the conservative Swiss canton of Appenzell got fined for baring all, appealed, and won.
Now that victory has turned into defeat. The BBC reports that Switzerland's highest court has ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Enjoy nudist hiking? Rethink that holiday in Switzerland
Last year we reported on a major victory for nudist hiking in Switzerland. A hiker in the conservative Swiss canton of Appenzell got fined for baring all, appealed, and won.
Now that victory has turned into defeat. The BBC reports that Switzerland's highest court has ...Video of the day: a goaty guide to pronouncing foreign cheeses
The holidays are Cheese Season. At no other time of the year are cheese and specialty food shops as thronged by dairy-seeking customers. They're hungry for a fix or searching for a gift, recipe ingredient, or the makings of a cheese plate. Cheese is love, and one of the ...
5 train trips everyone should experience
While some train routes can seem long and boring, there are many that allow for great views of unique landscape or luxury service. Still, there are some train rides that go above and beyond your wildest imagination. Check out these five train trips that everyone should ...Serial public art around the world
Public art exhibitions featuring a common sculpture that is multiplied and then embellished by various artists have been popping up in cities worldwide since 1998. Artistic director Walter Knapp first came up with the idea and convinced artists to dot Zurich, Switzerland ...Extreme hot-tubbers suspend Jacuzzi from Swiss bridge
I have a friend in Michigan who lives in a house with an outdoor hot tub which has never been used. He believes that it simply isn't worth the effort of filling it, cleaning it, and maintaining it. Clearly, my friend would be persona non grata with the members of the ...Swiss village Obermutten has more Facebook fans than residents
A tiny Swiss mountain village is taking social media to a new level. Obermutten in Graubuenden has promised anyone who "likes" the town on Facebook that they will put his/her photo onto the Commune's official notice board. By doing this, they say, anybody anywhere in the ...
Video of the Day - Through the Alps
The Alps. Stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany and France in the west, it is one of the greatest mountain ranges in Europe and arguably the greatest range to navigate by car (or motorcycle) in the world.
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Visa-free travel by the numbers
Visa-free travel is easy travel. Procuring visas takes time, energy, and money, and is beyond debate a pain for frequent travelers. The erection of visa barriers responds to a number of factors, though it can be said without too many qualifications that the citizens of ...Switzerland moves to make adventure travel safer
Switzerland has made a move to improve safety in the country's adventure travel sector by requiring all tour operators to employ licensed guides and carry insurance to cover their clients. The new law doesn't go into effect until January 1st, 2013, but operators are already ...Israel, Chile, Slovak Republic among countries with highest adventure travel potential
A new study conducted by George Washington University, Vital Wave Consulting, and the Adventure Travel Trade Association (ATTA) shows that Israel, Chile, and the Slovak Republic led the way in adventure tourism in 2010. The study, which resulted in the third annual Adventure ...Video of the Day - Summer in the Alps
If you could capture your favorite snippets of summer, what would they be? Backyard barbecues? Ambitious road trips? A visit to your favorite lake?
Today's Video of the Day is a gorgeous montage of summer moments from the French & Italian Alps, compiled ...
EpicQuest puts cycling tours on sale
With the 2011 Tour de France now underway, adventure travel company EpicQuest has announced that they have put their cycling tours to Sun Valley and Europe on sale. Travelers looking for an active escape this summer or fall will save as much as 50% on some of the more ...Photo of the day - Cocktail hour
It's always cocktail hour somewhere in the world, they say, though if you're 8 months pregnant like me, it's not for another 5 weeks or so. Even as a non-whiskey drinker, I looked at this and wanted a nice warming glass of scotch and perhaps a fire to drink it by. Flickr ...Zurich to vote on suicide tourism
Zurich is set to vote on whether to continue allowing foreigners to seek assisted suicide in the city.
Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, but the public has become increasingly concerned about the number of people coming to their country with the intention of ...Five great European thermal baths
Before the spa revolution saw most upscale hotels offering spa services to guests, there was the venerable European spa town tradition, centered on thermal baths built around natural hot springs. The water on offer for bathing at these sites has historically been thought to ...Dolder Grand revives the artists of 80s at Live at Sunset
You can run, but you run far enough to get the music of the 1980s out of your head. True 1980s music fans wouldn't even try and there's good news for them: your favorite artists of the 80s (and a few who started in the 1970s) are taking the stage at the annual Live at ...SkyWork launches Bern-London route with iPads
Today SkyWork, a small Swiss airline, launches service between Bern-Belp and London City. SkyWork will be the only airline connecting the two cities with a direct service. London will join a short list of destinations in the SkyWork summer schedule stable: Barcelona, ...The best café in Zurich: savoring the Old World splendors of Conditorei Schober
I'm in heaven. It's a sunny early-summer morning and I'm sitting in a cobbled corner of Zurich's Old Town in the third floor salon of the elegant Conditorei Schober. Placed just so on the table before me is the most beautiful multi-layered latte macchiato I've ever seen: ...Top 20 countries for life expectancy
"Old people" - we all hope to live long enough to earn this distinction. In some countries, the probability of living well into your eighties is much better than in others. The worldwide average for life expectancy is just a smidge over 67, with the highest and lowest ...5 European adventure destinations
With its old world styling and modern luxuries, Europe isn't typically the first place that comes to mind when adventure travelers are searching for their next destination. But there are plenty of adventures to be had on the European continent as well, and here are five ...
